As Washington Post readers know, there has been extensive corruption in the District of Columbia government for many year, but I’ve been surprised about the relative dearth of news articles on corruption in the suburbs, particularly the Virginia suburbs.

I am a fan of Kimberley Strassel’s columns about federal politics in the Wall Street Journal. But her recent column about the omnibus spending bill—which increased spending 13 percent in one year—was off the mark.

Congress has passed a giant omnibus spending bill with large increases for every federal budget area. If Trump goes along with the GOP leadership and hikes spending, it would cut his cabinet secretaries off at the knees.